Luke 15:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. ”

• Luke 15:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Ten pieces of silver - In the original, ten “drachmas.” The drachma was about the value of fifteen cents, and consequently the whole sum was about a dollar and a half, or six shillings. The sum w...

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• Luke 15:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Luke 25. Three Parables Showing God's Love for the Lost, and His Joy at their Restoration. The three parables in this chapter have no definite note of time or place. An introduction is supplied fro...

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• Luke 15:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  friends . Female friends (feminine) the piece. Not "my", as in Luke 15:6 . I had lost . I lost. Compare "was lost" in Luke 15:6 .

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• Luke 15:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1543 THE LOST PIECE OF SILVER Luke 15:8-10 . What woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she...

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• Luke 15:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And when she hath found it , she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.

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• Luke 15:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  She calleth her friends, &c.— Her female friends, —τας φιλας. It might seem hardly worth while to ask the congratulation of her friends on so small an occasion as finding a drachma; (for that...

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• Luke 15:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. And when she hath found it, she calleth...

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• Luke 15:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Parables of the Lost Sheep, of them Lost Coin, of the Prodigal Son 1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12-13 . The first of a series of three parables for the encouragement of penit...

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• Luke 15:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 21 LOST AND FOUND. IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe of humanity, sending the pulsations of new excite...

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• Luke 15:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Seeking and Finding the Lost Luke 15:1-10 They that have left the fold in which they were nurtured in early life, and have gone over bleak mountains and through tangled brakes, find themselves...

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• Luke 15:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the great discourse of this chapter, consisting of a threefold parable. In...

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• Luke 15:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her f...

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• Luke 15:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  LOST AND FOUND ‘Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep … [and] the piece which I had lost.’ Luke 15:6-9 We have here two beautiful pictures. Though the lesson to be learned from each is...

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• Luke 15:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends ,.... Luke 15:6 a parable somewhat like to this, the Jews x have on those words in Proverbs 2:4 "If thou seekest her as silver", c. "it is l...

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• Luke 15:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And when she hath found it , she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Ver. 9. Rejoice with me ] What greater...

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• Luke 15:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Either what woman As if he had said, To illustrate the matter by another obvious similitude, that it may yet more powerfully strike your minds, what woman, having ten pieces of silver Though each...

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• Luke 15:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP (vs.3-7) Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would never choose a path of true discipleship if God did not seek him first. In this chapter we se...

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• Luke 15:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Lost Sheep and Piece of Silver.       1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.   2 And the Pharisees...

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• Luke 15:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Luke 15:8 "

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• Luke 15:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Parables of The Seeking Shepherd and the Lost Coin (15:1-10). In these twin parables Jesus illustrates Heaven's concern over all lost persons, whoever they may be, and of whatever class they b...

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• Luke 15:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 15:1 . Publicans and sinners .— I.e. , tax-gatherers, odious to the whole nation on account of their occupation and their unscrupulousness in carrying it on, and persons from...

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• Luke 15:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Luke 15:8-10 The piece of silver whatever it was was great to the owner. And here lies the point in the analogy. A soul, an individual creature, an atom in God's universe, may be in itself a very...

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• Luke 15:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best exposition of it. The three parables recorded here set forth the wo...

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• Luke 15:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 15:1 . Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him. The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own righteousness, as to regard all such characters as excluded from the...

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• Luke 15:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Either what woman having ten pieces of silver Man resembled to silver coin 1. And that in regard of matter. No metal except gold (which indeed is most solid and perfectly concocted with suffi...

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• Luke 15:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 15:1-42 The Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the "lost," in which he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful. Luke 15:1 , Luke 15:2...

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• Luke 15:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The parable of the lost piece of silver:

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• Luke 15:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Luke 15:6 ; Luke 15:7

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• Luke 15:9 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Christ Seeking To Save Luke 15:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable. 1. We have the shepherd suffering as he seeks his sheep. The parable...

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